Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Structure surrounding optical fiber-to-fiber connection
Patent
1991-10-21
1992-11-10
Healy, Brian
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Structure surrounding optical fiber-to-fiber connection
385 34, 385 51, 385124, 385139, 385 59, G02B 632
Patent
active
051631075
ABSTRACT:
A robust optic fiber coupler which connects to an optic fiber cable via a quick disconnect optic fiber connector. The robust coupler contains a GRIN lens positioned in a bore through the coupler axially aligned with the optic fiber. The GRIN lens acts to expand and collimate input/output optic signals which are then passed through a protective window in the axial bore and emitted from the end plate face of the robust coupler. The optic signals are coupled between two optic fiber cables, each fitted with a subject robust coupler, when the coupler end plate faces are positioned adjacent to each other with each axial bore and associated GRIN lens and optic fiber commonly and axially aligned through a process such as a robotic arm and end effector connection.
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Donahue B. A.
Gardner Conrad O.
Healy Brian
The Boeing Company
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